Enterprise IT Articles on 10 Feb 09: Five virtualization trends to watch

As written: The economy might be sputtering and cell phone companies stuttering, but in IT the world is going virtual.

1. Memory virtualization. What a good idea! Instead of always running around stuffing servers with more and more memory, how about making memory a shared virtual resource? RNA Networks in Oregon has the lead here, as the company describes the, "Memory Virtualization Platform works by pooling or aggregating available memory across nodes, and making the memory pool available as a shared network resource available to all servers in the data center. Servers can access the pool, contribute to it or both." I'm looking forward to hearing from some early users to see if the memory virtualization platform actually works as described.

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